DOCTORS, NURSES... AND PATIENTS. TODAY... HOSPITALS AND EMERGENCY PERSONELL... ACROSS THE UPSTATE TOOK PART IN A DISASTER DRILL. THE GOAL... MAKING SURE WE ARE READY... JUST IN CASE. THE FIRST THING YOU NEED TO KNOW... IS THIS IS NOT REAL this actually started a couple days ago with the earth quake in the tennessee area. AN EARTHQUAKE... WITH SO MANY VICTIMS, SOME HAD TO GET FLOWN INTO AREA HOSPITALS. for us... this is a practice to see what gaps we have so we are prepared in advance for when things like this does happen... THIS FLIGHT... HAD 4 ADULT VICTIMS... DEALING WITH HEAD TRAUMA.... SERIOUS CUTS... AND MORE. ALSO ON BOARD... A BABY BARELY HOLDING ON. different health care facilities offer different services so we want to make sure we get patients to the right places where the services are provided. MUCH OF THAT... HANDLED HERE IN THIS MAKESHIFT CONTROL CENTER FOR THIS DISASTER DRILL. PEOPLE... WORKING THE PHONES, THE COMPUTERS... TAKING IN THE INFORMATION AND CONTROLLING WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. im with spartanburg county cert which is community emergency response teams... HIS MAIN JOB IS COMMUNICATION... BACK IN THE ER... THE PATIENTS COME IN... WHO IT IS... WHERE THEY CAME FROM... WHATS WRONG WITH THEM AND WHERE ARE THEY GOING. if we don't have communication we have chaos... AND IF THIS WAS REAL.... ONE THING THEY WOULD ALSO HAVE TO DEAL WITH... IS US. dealing with the media... is pratice AFTER... ALL THE AGENCIES WILL HAVE A DEBRIEFING OF SORTS... TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE CHALLENGES WERE AND WHAT THEY COULD DO... TO FIX THEM.

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